Brother MFC-J5945DW INKvestment Tank All-In-One Printer Review
The Brother MFC-J5945DW ($299.99) is a wide-format all-in-one inkjet printer designed for use in small businesses and home offices. It prints well and fast, offers highly competitive running costs, and it's loaded with productivity features. It's similar in many ways to its sibling, the Editors' Choice MFC-J6945DW, with one notable exception: While that more expensive model can print, copy, scan, and fax wide-format pages, the MFC-J5945DW can only print in tabloid size. That said, if your office doesn't require wide-format media processing beyond printing, the MFC-J5945DW offers many of the perks of its sibling for $50 less.
Big and Capable All-in-One
At 14.9 by 21.5 by 17.2 inches (HWD) and weighing 45.9 pounds, the MFC-J5945DW is slightly larger than 2017's MFC-J5930DW, which it replaces, and a bit smaller than its MFC-J6945DW sibling. It's also somewhat smaller and lighter than Epson's WorkForce Pro WF-7720, that company's wide-format (print, copy, scan, and fax) behemoth, and...
The feature-rich Brother MFC-J5945DW is a wide-format inkjet AIO that produces good-looking documents at a very reasonable cost per page.
Low running costs; Above-average print quality; Prints tabloid-size pages; Single-pass duplexing ADF; High paper capacity
Can't copy, scan, or fax tabloid-size pages